Practice Questions

The main impact did European exploration on American Indians at the onset of the establishment of the Columbian Exchange was?

The introduction of disease like small pox led to a decimation on the American Indian Population

The most significant impact of the introduction of sugarcane in the West Indieas was?

The need for slave labor from Africa to maintain constant production of sugar

All of the following were true of European relations with the Native Americans in the New World except?

The French tended to have adversarial relations with Native Americans as they took over Native trade partnerships.

The major cause of Bacon’s Rebellion was the competing perceptions of power in 17th century Virginia. What is the best description of the differing perceptions?

The difference in political power between the eastern plantation owners and the newer settlers in the West, with the advantage goign to the plantation owners in the east.

The event expressed in the picture most directly led to which of the following?

The increase in African slavery in opposed to indentrued servitude

One way women gained a higher status during the time of Abigail Adams was through the idea of:

Republican Motherhood

The sentiments expressed in the second excerpt by Susan B. Anthony are most likely in support of:

Universal suffrage

The excerpts above best support which of the following conclusions about women’s rights movements?

Women’s rights movements flourished in response to inconcisstent legislation and unequal distributions of power throughout the nation.

The sentiments expressed by Washington in his Farewell Address most directly warn against partisan dvisions that occurred before which of the following conflicts?

The Civil War

Elsewhere in the Address, Washington promotes which of the following approaches to foeign policy?

Neutrality

The divisions which emerged after Washington’s presidency centered around all of the following except

Issues of religion and religious toleration

According to this excerpt, which of the following has supremacy in American law?

The Constitution

The previous excerpt would have been most strongly by which group?

Southern slave owners in the 1850s

In reaction to changing events in American history, intepretation of the Constitution by the Supreme Court can allow subsequent decisions to change initial court rulings. Which of the following pair of Supreme Court decisions illustrates this change of intereretation?

Plessy vs Ferguson and Board vs Board of Education

Based on the information in the map, which of the following best describes the circumstances of events in the early 19th century?

The United States was attempting to maintain a balance between free and slave states.

Based on the map, which of the following groups would have most likely objected to the outcome of the events that were established in the Compromise of 1820

Quakers in the Northeast

The event protrayed in the map was the center of controversy later in the first half of the 19th century when?

The Supreme Court determined the outcome compromise that createed the above map to be unconstitutional.

In the excerpt above, which quote best explains why Jackson chose to veto the recharter of the Second Bank?

“interests are identified with those of foreign Stockholders.”

The purpose behind Andrew Jackson’s spoils system was?

To reward political supporters with public office

The debate over the First Bank of the United States was significant because it raised the issue of?

How strictly the Constitution should be interpreted

Which of the following factors most directly caused the migration shown in the map above?

Federal Acts supported by the president

The Plains Indians were finally forced to surrender in the late 1890s due to the?

Coming of railroads are the virtual extermination of the buffalo

Which of the following was an immediate consequence of the secession of South Carolina?

Other Southern States seceded from the Union, forming the Confederacy

The sentiments above are most consistent with which of the following ideologies?

States’ Rights

Which of the following best explains why South Carolina chose to secede from the Union in 1860?

Lincoln’s election on a Free Soil platform led Southern politicians to conclude that secession was necessary.

Which of the following would be most likely to suppor the perspective expressed by Riis in the passage above?

A progressive

Riis’s work as an investigator of the lives of the poor can most directly be associated with which of the following?

The Muckrakers

The sentiment expressed by Beveridge best exemplifies which of the following?

Imperalism

The United States became politically engaged ith the Philippines after what military conflict?

The Spanish American War

Which of the following rationales does Beveridge employ in his argument?

Powerful nations have a moral duty to govern less developed nations

Which of the following political ideas best reflects the perspective of Calvin Coolidge in the passage above?

Government should be limited

Which of the following presidents would be most likely to share Coolidge’s sentiments?

Ronald Reagan

The ideas expressed above were influenced by which of the following?

Widespread prosperity in the 1920s

In the passage above Coolidge is reacting against which of the following?

The governmental politics of the Progressive Era

The graph above is consistent with which of the following true statements about the era portrayed?

A full economic recovery did not occur until the US involvement in World War 2

Which of the following was NOT a major contributinfg actor to the onset of the Great Depression?

The federal government interfered too frequently with the economy, causing investors to lose confidence.

The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 sought to lessen the effects of the Depression by

Paying farmers to cut production and in some cases destroy crops

The dismal plight of the “Dust Bowl” refugees was captured in

John Steimbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath

In response to several unfavorable Supreme Court rulings concerning New Deal programs, Franklin Roosevelt

Proposed legislation that would allow him to appoint new federal and Supreme Court judges

Which of the following was the most immediate consequence of the events described in the excerpt above?

The internment of Japanese-Americans

Which of the following statements best characterizes the economic consequences of the declaration of war described above?

The war ravaged conditions of Asia and Europe allowed the united States to emerge as one of the most prosperous nations on Earth

Which of the following events of the 1940s and the 1950s contirbuted to and was caused by the economic conditions described in the above passage?

marriages and birthrates decrease sharply

Which of the following best identifies the root cause of prosperity in which Lynes refers?

Increased productivity in American’s heavy industries due to the Taft-Hartley Act

Which of the following was long-term cultural effect on the conditions described by Lynes?

It led to a counterculture movement in the 1960s among college students and youth

President Johnson’s address reveals that American politics continued to be dominated by which of the following trends?

Federal support for individual economic security and freedom

Which of the following best describes the ideology advanced in Johnson’s address

Liberalism

Which of the following was a long-term political effect of the goals articulated in the excerpt?

A backlash to the social welfare programs led to the growth of a modern conservative movement in the 1970s and 1980s

The conflict described above is most liely a result of which of the following doctrines?

Containment

Which of the following pairs of words best characterizes the differences between the approaches of Presidents Lyndon Johnson (1963-1969) and Richard Nixon (1969-1974) to the Vietnam Conflict?

Escalation vs retreat

From the quote above, it is reasoable to infer that

Many Vietnamese viewed the United States as a colonial influence

Triangular trade was part of what colonial economic practice?

Mercantilism

All of the following were true of the First Great Awakening which ocurred in the 1730s EXCEPT

It added fire to the abolitionist movement in the North

The purpose of Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 Join or Die cartoon was to

show the need to attend the Albany Congress and unify the colonies

The Proclamation of 1763 prohibited?

colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains

The British Parliament passed the Stamp Act (1765) to?

Raise money to support new military forces needed for colonial defense

Ultimately, Thomas Paine’s Common Sense (1776) convinced many colonists they should fight for

an independent and republican America, separate from Britain

The Declaration of Independence did all of the following except?

Offered the British one last chance of reconciliation

A weakness of the Articles of Confederation (1781) was that they left Congress unable to

Enforce a tax-collection program

The Bill of Rights was intended to protect ___ against the potential tyranny of __?

Individual liberties, a strong central government

Thomas Jefferson was conscience-stricken about the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France because

The Constitution did not explicitly give the President this type of power

As a result of the Missouri Compromise (1820)

slavery was banned north of 36° 30' in Louisiana Purchase territory

The “nullification crisis” of 1832-1833 erupted over

Tarriff policy

Why did Irish immigrants embrace machine politics in the cities where they settled?

The machines aided struggling newcomers with food, jobs, and legal advice.

Match each abolitionist below with his or her contribution to the anti-slavery movement

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The terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo (1848) ending the Mexican War included

United States payment of $15 million for the cession of northern Mexico

The doctrine of popular sovereignty, as embraced in the mid-19th century, is best defined as

Giving the people of a territory or state the right to decide the slavery issue for themselves

The aspect of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 was hated in the North because

Northerners could be required to help capture runaway slaves

Which of the following was NOT part of the Supreme Court Ruling in the landmark Dred Scott case of 1857?

Jim Crow Laws were legally permissible if the facilities were “equal”

As the Civil War began, the South had the advantage of

More talented military leaders

The Emancipation Proclamation (1863) had the effect of

strengthening the moral cause and diplomatic position of the Union

During the era of Reconstruction, the Freedmen’s Bureau’s

was established by Congress to provide food, education, and other social services to freedmen

What political development resulted form the Compromise of 1877?

The withdrawl of federal troops and abandoment of black rights in the South

Labor unrest and strikes in the 1870s and 1880s, such as the Pullman Strike, resulted in

The use of federal troops during strikes

Match each entrepreneur below with the field of enterprise with which he is historically identified

1 2 4 3

The Sherman Antitrust Act was at first primarliy useud to curb the power of

Labor Unions

Women working in settlement houses such as Hull House initially sought to help

Immigrants adapt to American customs and language

As a leader of the African American community, Booker T. Washington

Promoted black self-help but did not challenge segregation

William Jennings Bryan gained the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party in 1896 primarily because he

Eloquently supported the farmer’s demand for the unlimited coinage of silver

The Roosevelt Corollary (1904) added a new provision to the Monroe Doctrine that was specifically designed to

justify US internvention in the affairs of Latin American countries

The public outcry after the horrible Triangle Shirtwaist (1911) fire led many states to pass

Restrictions on female employment in the clothing industry

When WW1 broke out in 1914 the majority of Americans

hoped to stay out of the war

Which one of the following was not among Wilson’s Fourteen Points upon which he based American’s idealistic foreign policy

German reparations and war guilt

The defense of the Espionange and Seditions Act in the Supreme Court case Schenk v. United States (1919) most directly contradicted which of the following earlier developments?

Protection of liberties through the adoption of the Bill of Rights in 1791

The immigration quota system adopted in the 1920s discriminated directly against

Southern and Eastern Europeans

The harlem Renaissance of the 1920s can best be described as

A celebration of black culture and creative expression

In the 1920s, buying stock “on margin” meant

Taking out a loan to purchase stock

The Dawes Plan of 1924

Provided a solution to the tangle of war-debt and war-reparations payments

The Lend-Lease program of 1941

Brought the US closer to joining WW2 by supporting the Allies economically

Unlike the failed Leauge of Nations, the new United Nations established in 1945

Assumed that there would eventually be conflict among the great powers

Under the Truman Doctrine, the United States pledged to

Support those who were resisting subjugation by communists

In the 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the Supreme Court

Declared that the concept of “separate but equal” facilities for Blacks and Whites was unconstitutional

When the Soviet Union attempted to install nuclear weapons in Cuba, President Kennedy ordered

A naval quarantine of Cuba

During the Watergate Scandal (1972), which best explains why Nixon ultimately handed over the tapes for inspection?

The Supreme Court ordered him to since he may have been committeed a crime and his executive privilege did not apply

All of the following accurately describe stagflation EXCEPT

It was caused by tax increases under Johnson

What was the most immediate cause of the Oil Crisis 1973

The US supported Israel in wars against its Arab neighbors

The Camp David Accords was negotiated by ___ between ___

Jimmy Carter; Israel and Egypt

All of the following are true of economic policies of Ronald Reagan EXCEPT

Under his administration, there was increased spending on welfare programs

What was the cause of the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf Crisis?

Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait

All of the following are true of the Impeachment of Clinton EXCEPT

Clinton was forced to resign due to the charges brought forth in the impeachment hearings

Which of the following was NOT part of what George Bush called the “Axis of Evil”?

Afghanistan